Week 86 Danli

There are more and more things to share lately regarding how things change at home.  Perhaps we shouldn't share so much? but I doubt we could hide much of what happens until he returns.  You can see how excited he is about a few of the changes such as Trey Sparks' mission call.  What a great opportunity for him.  it will be work but it will be the best thing ever for the future.  In fact much of the news at home is good but as you can tell change is different and new for him.

Dear Family,

Well that is crazy that Chelsey broke up with Jake, Emily is having another girl, Trey is going on a mission, and who knows what else you guys wont to tell me!! I am not going to lie its been hard to keep focus at times because my time is running down really fast!! Less than 2 months and time just flies by like nothing. Yeah sorry about the fees for withdrawing money and checking money. I didnt know until a couple of days ago. Congrats on the new callings gees you guys have a lot of responsibility on your hands especially dad lol. But I am sure that he will be fine and do what he needs to do. I am so excited that Trey is going on a mission!! Tell Trey congrats and I am super bummed that he leaves before I get home!! I am sure that Chelsey will find her boy in Utah like Emily did lol. Emily why cant you have a boy already!! I wanted a nephew not another girl. Oh well what are the names for her??? I say Sydney!! 

Also that is weird that my records are now in Washington. What do the members say about me?? I am sure that Mom and Dad tell a ton of embarrassing stories about me all of the time lol. Oh well and I sure that I am going to stay in Washington for a few weeks and then make my move to Utah. My release date I have no clue and my flight plans I have no clue because the missionary that is in charge of things like that he hasnt said anything to me at all but I will ask this week because we are going to Tegus for the Christmas party of the mission so that should be lots of fun!! 

As for the work we had a crazy week with new investigators and possibly 7 baptisms this saturday!! We were working in this pueblo called Arauli which is kind of far from where we live. We have to ride bikes out there and we have been receiving a lot of references from members out there to teach and work with. That area is pretty big and we want to put a new branch there and hopefully another pair of missionaries. The baptisms that we could possibly have are kids from 9 to 12 years old and they all have been to church and want to be baptized so we are going to see what happens this week. Also they announced the temple dedication on March 17th!!!! So Honduran members are going to be crazy on that day!! The Open House starts on February 7th till March 4th. Ahhhhhh the week I leave is when they will have the open house!! That makes me frustrated!! haha I wonder if I can get special permission to go see it inside before I leave!! I would love that sooo much. I hope I can at least see the inside of it. Anyways the work is going well and the Christmas season is amazing. As a zone we decided to plan a special christmas dinner this year that I think no one has ever done. We decided that we are going to have christmas dinner for the poor people that live in our areas. We are going to invite a certain amount of people to come and have an awesome christmas that they have never experienced before. I think its a really goood idea and I am going to use that 100 dollars for this activity. So why not make a memorable christmas before I leave the country that I love?? Well I hope all goes well with you guys this week and I cant wait till we can call each other for the last time in Honduras. But thanks for all of your love and support. I hope that all of you have an amazing christmas and remember why we celebrate the season. Love you all and thanks!!

Tu Hijo,

Elder Hall 

Week 85 Danli

Based on his title of his letter to us we may be too anxious for his return.......

Dear Baggy Family,

Well I knew that you all would be super excited to use skype haha after mom just pleading to me to use skype even though I wasnt suppose to. Also who is all going to be there at the call?? Just the family or grandma, grandpa, Dicksons, Lawrences, and all of them. Or are you saying that they all will be there for my homecoming??? I cant believe december is here already and I just completed 22 months in my mission yesterday!! Mom I cant believe that you have the count days going lol!! Now its going to be a challenge to focus. Sweet Chelsey wants to go to Utah with me that will be really fun!! What about this Jake kid? What are his plans? Well my homecoming sounds like a huge blast now and I am way excited to see you all!! I just have to keep going you know. Some days are hard but I am really going to be super sad when I leave. Also the family thing yeah 100 dollars would be enough and if not I will let you know. I need to buy a new long sleeve shirt because I gave my last one away to my convert because he doesnt have one. So could you help me out with that please?? 

Well this week was crazy as usually going to Tegus for a meeting with President Hernandez and the other ZLs. That meeting was super spiritual and great because we watched the talk that Elder Jeffrey R. Holland gave this last conference and he talked about being disciples forever and never going back. We all shared our testimonies and how we need to keep working and being disciples in this mission and after the mission also until we Jesus Christ comes. It really impacted everyone!! I loved the part that we need to love God and serve him forever!! Very powerful speaker. Then our Zone Workshop was really good with the zone and they all seem super animated and willing to work really hard. After we had to get some marriage papers out in a far away city called Trojes!! That is so far away from where we are in Danli. We had to take a 3 hour bus ride and that took up our whole day!! We were so exhausted afterwards. Then Saturday we found some positive investigators and they are interested in our message. They are an old couple who are really funny and cute they have lived together for 47 years and have never been married but they do want get married. Then there nephew is really interested and wants to learn more about our church. His name is Marvin really good kid. So yeah we are working hard and keeping focus even though its hard in this time of the season. Sunday we watched the devotional which was really good and they were all very good messages!! President Monson looks pretty old now and I wonder if he is still going to keep chugging along. I heard that he has been sick lately but I am not sure if thats true. Yeah thats about it for me haha. I can tell everyone is super excited for me to get home you know. I am too no worries the day will come. Thank you so much for your prayers and your help haha. I love you all and I wish the best for you all. Take care!!

Tu Hijo,

Elder Hall

Week 84 Danli

We are now to Week 84 in Honduras and Thanksgiving just passed.  We can see that he is starting to talk more about life to come here in WA and in his future.  Yet he still remains engaged in the work and wanting to finish with the people there.  The news that we will be able to Skype is very welcome as we can get a chance to see him live for a few minutes.  Time is moving fast....yet seems very slow on a daily basis for us.  

Dear Family,

Well it sounds like your thanksgiving was a success and you had lots of fun with the family. I can´t wait till I can come home and do things with all of you guys and I am sure that Josey looks super different. Also whats the word with Chelsey and Jake?? Also I have the essays done now so no worries I am going to see President Hernandez this week and I can get that endorsement done. We as a zone just went to Pizza Hut to celebrate thanksgiving haha nothing huge. Also yes I talked with Elder Unitt about my flight plans and I am going to give him the information so he can fill everything out. I am actually pretty excited to go home to a place that I dont know. New adventures area always fun! Well I have some really good news for you guys haha. I know mom is going to flip but we had zone conference this past week and president gave us permission to us to use Skype to call home!!!! I know its pretty crazy but I am super excited to call home now lol. Please dont cry when use see me when the time comes or I will start crying also but anyways awesome news right?!!! 

Now as for the work we found some new families that had some really good questions for us to answer and they are really receptive. We taught them the Restoration and they loved it. There names are Wilfredo and Deysi. We are hoping to have them be baptized this next month. We are finding more but we still need to visit them again to see if they will progress more. Also on Sunday we had tons of investigators in church from a little area called Arauli and they all loved it. We have been trying to get out to Arauli all this week but we were to busy with receiving a new missionary, zone conference, phones we had to fix and stuff like that. Also we have a meeting with President this week with all of the Zone Leaders. So I feel super bad because at times we just leave our area to die because we dont get to work to much in the area. I would love to stay and work but at times we had to do other things for the zone. But to be honest we had a pretty good week with working and helping out the zone. We had some pretty good success this month and the zone feels really good about it!! Man I love this work! At times its just hard to think that I am leaving soon and I dont want to. At the same time I do need to leave so I can see all of you guys and start my life. Anyways not much is happening here and I love all of your help and support all of you are awesome. Thank you for the packages and I am sure that I wont open them till the day of Christmas!! Well tell everyone I said hi and I love you all. I will talk to you guys later!! 

Tu Hijo,

Elder Hall